Young men who entered matrimony often associate their foolishness and infidelity to the early marriage. It is not surprising either if you could find parents who give approval to their children to enjoy singlehood in this manner believing that this is the way towards a behaved husband in the future.
Matthew 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled w/ light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.
Matthew 13:23 But the seed sown in rich soil is the one who hears the Word and understands it, who indeed bear fruit and yields a a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.
Jeremiah 5:21 Pay attention to this, foolish and senseless people who have eyes and see not, who have ears and hear not.
Hello! Does it mean that when you womanize and drink alcohol a lot during your teenage days guarantee a healthy lifestyle when you settle down? Do not be deceived by such human wisdom!
1 Corinthian 3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you considers himself wise in the age, let him become a fool so as to become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God, for it is written: "He catches the wise in their own ruses," and again: "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."
My goodness! Once you have the 20/20 vision and with all the other senses intact, the possibility of falling into the foolishness of sins is not impossible. Why? Simply because it's a free choice! Primarily, what you see, hear, feel and touch may always be the governing factor which influences one's decision whether you are a teenager or an adult. If you see a curve of an alluring lady, it's either you become stoker or simply an admirer. If you're given the freedom to touch woman's sensuality, it's either you thank the opportunity or leave the temptation. As you hear the latest on secret places of sexual escapades, it's either you search the prospect or ignore the desire. When you feel the urge to be somebody else who's more captivating than your partner, it's either you obey or deny the thirst.
Ephesians 4:17-23 So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds, darkened in understanding of heart, they have become callous and have handed themselves for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess. That is not how you learned Christ, assuming that you have heard of Him and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus, that you should put away the old self of your former way of life corrupted through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the Spirit of your minds and put on the new self, created in God's way in righteousness and holiness of truth.
My dear brethren, holiness and foolishness of sins are both choices not exclusively separated for young and adults but a perpetual heritage that push us into our limits from all our thoughts, plans, decisions and actions that we've made. The limit of foolishness of sins is misery. The limit of holiness is boundless happiness and joy. Your plan and decision may be altered in the soonest possible time before the action takes place because of the intervention of conscience which is the medium of the Holy Spirit. The challenge is always NOW.
James 1:22-25 Be doer of the Word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror. he sees himself then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like. But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.
Infidelity and disloyalty can be both a lifetime lifestyle. It is not true that when you had been used to infidelity, chances that you are behaved in the future. As I've said, lust never stops while your physical faculties are well-coordinated. TV news and print media provides us a proof through their solicited reports like grandfathers' issues on incest, rape, molestation; and we ourselves know oldies who are habitual on moonlighting.
At all times, how you are well able to control the desire is the key but never the span of time living into it as basis of maximum tolerance in the future. Maximum tolerance of the snare of temptation always depend on our YES commitment to the Will of the Father than the wheel of deception of the lustful desire which continues to revolve unsparingly that redirect our good will simply because we are made to be holy not to be folly from the beginning up to the end; not from the middle to the end.
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